Deprescribing intervention activities mapped to guiding principles for use in general practice: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify and characterise activities for deprescribing used in general practice and to map the identified activities to pioneering principles of deprescribing.

Setting

Primary care.

Data sources

Medline, EMBASE (Ovid), CINAHL, Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), Clinicaltrials.gov, ISRCTN registry, OpenGrey, Annals of Family Medicine, BMC Family Practice, Family Practice and British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) from inception to the end of June 2021.

Study selection

Included studies were original research (randomised controlled trial, quasi-experimental, cohort study, qualitative and case studies), protocol papers and protocol registrations.

Data extraction

Screening and data extraction was completed

SUBMITTER: Coe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8422486 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature